Experts

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Independent Analyst

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

A violent end to the Libyan crisis also seems unlikely in the near term, as the forces in the country’s east will have trouble organizing an effective attack on Tripoli without the support of Russia, whose military has other things in sight

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

PhD in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Political Scientist

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University